Quotes about Blessings

I don't have many sad days.

Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.

delighting in what we have been given.

The composer Igor Stravinsky wisely said, "I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received."3

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

The Petition Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep. Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest Your weary ones. Bless Your dying ones. Soothe Your suffering ones. Shield Your joyous ones, and all for Your love's sake. Amen.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.

When you love what you have, you have everything you need.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.